Carol Frieberg, Health Educator, Weight Management:   Just what would it take to live to 100?  And what do those who live that long, attribute their longevity to?  Dan Buettner, freelance writer for National Geographic and author of The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest, set out to discover just that.  In partnership with The National Institute on Aging and the University of Minnesota, Buettner traveled the globe to find communities that have... [More]

Carol Frieberg, Health Educator, Weight Management:   It was Hippocrates who first said, “Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.”  By now, most of us accept the fact that what we eat affects our health.  But did you know that roughly 70 percent of all diseases affecting Americans are diet-related?  It makes sense, then, that we educate ourselves about the health benefits of the foods we eat everyday.  Below is a list of 10 healthy foods with excellent health “protective” ben... [More]